More than 300 newly recruited Apulians were divided into two teams, moving as quickly as possible through the gaps in the front line to reach the moat and throw in sacks...
The soldiers defending the city, seeing this situation from the city walls, hurriedly threw down javelins, and the cries of agony were noticeably more than before...
Maximus, at the rear, heard these sounds and remained relatively calm. Having lived in this era and experienced many wars, he had become somewhat indifferent to death.
Some of the newly recruited Apulian soldiers were hit by javelins and fell by the moat, but the sacks they threw had already paved two paths in the moat (on either side of the moat, centered on the city gate). The rebel soldiers closest to the passageways shouted, charged across the moat, reached the city wall, and leaned the ladders they carried against the wall...
At the same time, stones rained down from the city, amid the screams, the real siege battle officially commenced...
